Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....LICH, John M. June 20, 2001
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association.  Volume 37, August 2001, Number 1; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
John M. Lich, 86, husband of Vera (Scorza)(Terpstra)Lich, widower of Nell 
(Torrenga) Lich, father of John P. Lich, Evelyn M. David, Linda I. Tower & 
Larry W. Lich, brother of the late Henry & Peter Lich, son of Sadie (Dorn) & 
Peter Lich, grandson of John Lich I, an onion set farmer from Lansing, 
Illinois, and originally from the Netherlands.
John was born April 28, 1915, in Chicago, and moved to Sebewa Township April 
15, 1940.  His father had a wholesale produce store in the Chicago Farmers 
Market.  He & John came to Alto, MI, to buy onions from Floyd & Jane Hunt in 
1834, beginning a long and wonderful friendship that affected so many lives.  
Mary Jane (Wenger) Hunt was a first cousin to my grandmother, Barbara N. 
(Wenger) Brake.
John died June 20, 2001, in Florida.  Cremation has taken place and a memorial 
service will be held at 3:00 PM, Sunday, July 29, at Lake Odessa Christian 
Reformed Church, 620 Sixth Avenue, Lake Odessa.  Friends may meet with the 
family beginning at 1:00 PM, to share stories about John.
This issue of the Recollector contains a reprint of John's story in his own 
words, as told to Robert Wilfred Gierman in 1982.  It contains a lot we had 
forgotten.  For instance, we had always understood that John's father was J. 
Peter Lich, and that was how Little John got to be John P. Lich IV, but it took 
John Lich I & Peter Lich I to get us to John M. Lich, John P. Lich, and John P. 
Lich IV.  I also remember that truck he was so proud of and had for so long.  
It said on the sides:  Sebewa Farm, John Lich, Portland Mich.

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